andLinux: A great way to virtualize Linux inside of Windows

Recently, there's been a lot written about virtualization. Ever since Steve Jobs announced the move to Intel, there's been huge flurries of excitement as commercial virtualization products like VMWare and Parallels and open-source products like VirtualBox improved their offerings.

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You use Ubuntu, not Linux

For a while I've been meaning to write this, and the article "there's more to Linux than Ubuntu" finally made me do it.

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A free Flash viewer is one of the last major gaps in GNU/Linux desktop functionality, so last week's news that Gnash, the free Flash player, had reached the stage where it could play YouTube and Lulu.tv videos seemed too good to be true. Unfortunately, it was.

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Linex, the GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian, developed by one of the poorest regions of Spain (and Europe) gave it the leadership of IT in Europe, developing local business and introducing Internet and computers to the whole population, elders and youngsters.

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These are ten killer apps that make Linux worth using. Among them: Synaptic/Adept/YUM, Beryl/Compiz, Amarok, MPlayer + MEncoder...

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A pretty good, informative and clear website about Linux. -What Linux is (I learned stuff!) -Why not Windows -Tips to switch

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The impending release of Windows Vista with its fancy Aero Glass special effects, along with the hasty addition of the similar XGL and Compiz technologies to the latest SUSE Linux release makes me think that programmers have a warped idea of what desktop computing is about.

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Security update to the stable release (sarge)

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The legal guardian of the free software movement explains why, after 12 years, the time is right to release version 3 of its constitution for public comment.

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Activities like these makes me wonder if GNU/Linux is indeed ready for the "primetime" because everything a typical person would need is already present in a first-time installation of GNU/Linux (Ubuntu for instance).

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Yet another day...

I am now awake for almost 24 hours. Most of the time was spent with my beloved daughter and this laptop. I spent a good portion of my working day updating to a new release of Ubuntu Linux. This one is still in "Beta" phase, but i could not wait more.

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